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Cover Me Impressed

With a focus on the 60's-90's music scene, CMI is a Paradiso for Lovers Cover Songs! Each post focuses on a particular song and provides its original and most popular recordings as well as covers versions. Patrons of CMI vote on the most deserving cover version, which will then live to compete again, battling other cover songs in a future post.

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Let me get straight to the point: All 3 of these covers suck. The real appeal of the original is the wonderful vocals and harmonies. Chet does some fine pickin’ indeed. But alas, no vocals. The Iguanas: Boring. The Ugly Dog Skiffle Combo must be named after their lead singer because the vocal sound like an ugly dog. Keep the covers. I’m going with the original all the way. And I’m tellin’ all the world.

After these underwhelming renditions I blame myself for choosing this song. I do think The Beatles perform this with energy, verve and charisma. But after feeling saliva drenched from homemade kazoos and befuddled by the laconic indifference of The Iguanas performance, only Chet could rate a vote. If The Iguanas chose this take to record, what takes did they dismiss? Iggy was apparently so frustrated and disturbed that he swore to never wear a shirt again.

Pete-o – This is a great song. What amazes me sometimes is that it was written in 1964, as I often find myself thinking that is sounds like prototypical 1966, a testament to how far ahead the Beatles were from all their contemporaries. It’s also noteworthy as the first deliberate use of feedback in a pop song recording.